TIL: you can only kill someone by throwing a rock if you are religious. Do not attempt otherwise, it will not work.
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also: there has never been a single person in history who followed the crowd even though they secretly didn't believe in a god.
I'm an atheist, and there are plenty of people I would stone to death if given the chance.
So if the number really is zero, it's probably due to a lack of opportunity.
stoning is a particular method of public execution, so most rock-related deaths don't count
Stalin and Mao would like to have a chat with your if you think this is true.
Tanked to dead, sent to concentration camps without due process... Sure.
But not stoned!
May not be stonings, but you've got the French Revolution, Stalin's purge during the Soviet Union and Cultural Revolution - all mass executions caused by Atheist states.
The Holocaust wasn't motivated by religion either- Actual bible-believing Christians were against it. The predecessor to our "progressive" Christians ("Christ of the culture" mentality)
Yea. Humans never needed an excuse for violence.
Or rather, we always found an excuse, religion is merely one of them.
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I'm not so sure of that Christian version of "no true Scotsman", but it's true that religion is typically just a tool used by people with power to direct the people to violence, rather than the source of it.
But man is it an effective tool for that purpose.
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Found the Heritage Foundation shitposting account.
Btw:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Christianity
https://theopolisinstitute.com/evangelicals-for-adolf-christians-in-hitlers-germany/
And, of course, Stalin actually politically allied with the Orthodox Church during WW2.
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Because they use other weapons?
I feel like this is one of those things where, even though there is a likelihood that you are right, you don't actually know that you are correct.
People are weird.
People are occasionally evil, especially towards weird people.
There's an entire possibility that atheists have stoned somebody to death, and since you're the one making the claim, I feel like you should be the one to scour every single instance of death in all of human history to verify your claim.
Yeah they have, I did it last week ffs.
That’s not true. Lots of drugs can kill you. Don’t know if they all count as ‘stoned’ though
Where can I? Asking for a friend
Just walk around downtown asking for drugs. If you dont find any and the drugs don't kill you, someone probably will eventually.
A fact check of this claim would be interesting.
Nah we just don't write fun stories about it when it happens.
Humans climbed to the top of the food chain by throwing rocks and that was before gods. Everything was stoned to death by atheists in the day.
Just needs a slight tweak to be a little less historically inaccurate: Nobody has ever been "hunted for sport" by a Zoroastrian.
Nah Persia got wild sometimes.
The guys you want are the Jains. They're supposedly the origin of the pacifist and global brotherhood messaging in Christianity, which is clearly at odds with just about everything else in the history of the religion.
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But it is shit, which is kind of the point. Shitposts are usually poor-quality, provocative, or off-topic.
Can a shitpost be off-topic on a shitpost community?
I dunno. There have been some pretty annoying people throughout history. Might be more accurate to say "for not being an atheist."
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Not for lack of wanting to... Hooray for impulse control.
Who’s to say pre-historic humans never did?
You wouldn't say that if you knew what I did in '99
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